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Posted January 10, 2011 12:57 am

The Left Tries to Politicize the Tucson Massacre

The Left is trying to implicate Sarah Palin, the TEA Party, and Conservative commentators in the Tucson Massacre.

The first salvo came from none other than the Pima County Sheriff, Democrat Clarence Dupnik.It seems Dupnik has issues with Arizona immigration law, Conservative talk radio, and the TEA Party. Fox News reported,

Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik sparked much of the debate during a press conference Saturday evening in which he blamed talk radio and television for a decline in America.

"I think the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business and what (we) see on TV and how our youngsters are being raised, that this has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in. And I think it's time that we do the soul-searching," the sheriff said.

On Sunday, Dupnik didn't back down.

"I think we're the tombstone of the United States of America," Dupnik said of The Granite State, which a day earlier he called the “Mecca” of hatred and bigotry. "To try to inflame the public on a daily basis 24 hours a day, seven days a week has impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with."

"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," said the sheriff. "And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

Yahoo News contributor Carol Benjie Gilbert has this to say about the Dupnik political rants,

Dupnik was a vocal opponent of Arizona's S.B.1070, a law designed to rid the state of illegal immigrants by criminalizing their efforts to work , defining their presence in the state as trespass, and mandating immigration status checks during routine police stops. In April, Dupnik used strong language to condemn the law, calling it "racist," "disgusting" and "stupid" as well as unnecessary.

In an unusual move for a law enforcement official, Dupnik vowed he would not enforce the law. Dupnik's stand drew applause from the law's opponents and criticism from its supporters, including a Facebook fan page.

Giffords' Democratic colleague, Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, told Mother Jones magazine within hours after the rampage that the “political tone and tenor” created by Palin and the tea party movement had set the stage for the shooting.

Grijalva said Palin's “apparatus” had put Giffords' and his own life at risk.

“Both Gabby and I were targeted in the apparatus in that cycle [saying] these people are ‘enemies.’” He added: “The Palin express better look at their tone and their tenor.”

The liberal New York Times was not far behind Grijalva, publishing a lead story headlined "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics."

The Times ins[in]uated that conservative criticism of President Barack Obama and his policies may have been at the root of this weekend's violence, noting "... it was hard to separate what had happened from the heated nature of the debate that has swirled around Mr. Obama and Democratic policies of the past two years."

The paper even suggested tea party criticisms of Obama's healthcare plan, the debate over Arizona's new rules on police handling of illegal immigrants and even the fact Giffords was Jewish could have played a role. The Times also claimed that the fact Palin's political action committee had targeted Giffords for defeat may have played a role.

Jared Loughner leans to the Far Left.He has listed "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler as two of his favorite books.He was apparently rejected when he tried to enlist in our military because he failed a drug test.On one of Loughner’s Internet sites is an apparent posting of the burning of an American Flag.

Thus far Jared Loughner’s shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Federal Judge John Roll, and 17 others does not seem to have been motivated by political ideology. The reality of the situation appears to be that Jared Loughner has mental problems that go far beyond any political ideology he might embrace.